hey jude….

sitting in a small, outdated but somewhat vintage theatre with hundred of people all around all watching one woman as she stood on stage with a microphone and a guitar…..this is how an amazing concert started and ended with that very same audience all singing (quite well I might add)….”Hey Jude”

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I was invited to a concert, a concert of a group that I had never heard of before, “Fiction Family” which I later found out was a group made up of Jon Foreman (the lead singer of a band called “switchfoot” and Shawn Watkins (the lead singer of a band called Nickelcreek. The concert was opened by a woman named Molly Jenson (she was the lady in the beginning of this blog)

Anyways I was almost gonna bail on the whole concert because it was a long, boring day at work…my shoulder was killing me (i did something to it awhile ago and it has gotten progressively worse, especially from working in my current job) and I was a bit tired. I text messaged my friend early in the afternoon to let him know I may not make it, which ended after a few text messages in “Maybe I won’t be your friend if you don’t come”…well gee…although I was almost certain that he was kidding I figured what the heck if he is gonna resort to jeopardizing our friendship..i should probably go, I mean hey I might have fun, right?

So after driving the unbelievably long trek home, hopping in the shower and putting nice clean clothes on, I got back in my car, picked up some burgers on the way (so much for eating healthy), ate the burgers and pulled into the parking lot of Cascade College where I was supposed to meet my other friends who were going.

I was one of the first to arrive, so we waited about 10 minutes (i think we waited for matt, the friend that said he wouldn’t be my friend hadn’t I had come)…and made our way to the “Aladdin Theater” .

As we pulled up the the theater a long line wrapped around he building, “Great” I thought since I hadn’t bothered to grab a coat but luckily by the time we found a parking spot and walked to the line, it had dwindled down a bit and we only had to wait a few minutes before getting inside.

Once inside, we talked a bit…looked for people we knew and waited. Once the concert started, it was amazing…acoustic guitars, drums, a bass and a fiddle…oh yeah and a banjo made up the instruments played. They sang mostly songs I had never heard before but loved, had a great time laughing and watching the people around me. Loved it when a band memeber forgot what they were doing or said something funny on stage.

the last song was preceded with the lead singer saying “ok this is our last song for the night, unless however after we are done we hear a chorus of “Hey Jude” then we might play more”….the song ended, they walked off stage then without hesitation the crowd broke out in “Hey Jude, don’t make it bad, take a sad song and make it better…..” The band came back on stage finished “Hey Jude” with us and then sang 2 or 3 more songs…it was awesome.

Anyways needless to say I had a great night.